Sky Pair · 하늘짝

The Silver Rat of Pisces

Carry your strength. Follow the tide.

The Silver Rat of Pisces is a Sky Pair: the Silver Rat day animal (庚子) from Korean saju, with the Pisces sun sign from Western astrology. There are 720 Sky Pairs in all.

What lifts you

strength that endures

What to watch

carrying it all alone

Drawn-to day animal

Ox (by day, not birth year)

A small step today

Rest for 10 minutes, doing nothing

What brings luck

colour green · direction east · numbers 3, 8

The silver comes from 庚, raw iron. Hard on the outside, forged by everything you went through. The rat (子): quick and alert — you always find a way through. Pisces is water: you feel what others feel, and drift between dream and real.

When the Silver Rat fights

When you fightYou settle it with cool logic.The more the feeling rises, the calmer and more exact your words get.

How you're misreadPeople call you heartless.Your way of managing feelings just looks cold.

Your strength in a conflictYou don't shake.When you're both worked up, you're the one who holds the centre.

What Pisces addsYou carry their feelings as well as yours.Pisces water floods you with empathy. Look after your own heart first.

One small stepBefore the logic: "That must have hurt."

庚子경자

Old name · White Rat · 白鼠